“You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.”
Boris Yeltsin
“You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.”
Thomas Hardy
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”
Ronald Reagan
“The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.”
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“He is called the Most Perfect of the Perfect. He sits upon His Perfect Throne. He looks so Beautiful in His Perfect Place. He fulfills the hopes of the hopeless. O Nanak, if one obtains the Perfect Lord, how can his virtues decrease?”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“If he can make me I know he's got to be sitting on his throne chuckling.”
Bob Clark